In light of recent circumstances, Winehouse will now perform live via satellite from a London studio. She is currently nominated for: Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Rehab," Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black, as well as Best New Artist.

Leading nominee West has eight nominations: Best Rap Solo Performance for "Stronger," two nominations for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group ("Southside" with Common and "Better Than I've Ever Been" with Nas and KRS-One), Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Good Life" with T-Pain), two nominations in Best Rap Song ("Can't Tell Me Nothing" with Aldrin Davis and "Good Life" with Aldrin Davis, Mike Dean, and Faheem Najm), and Album of the Year and Best Rap Album for Graduation.

Dierks Bentley, John Mayer and BeBe Winans are all current nominees. Dierks Bentley is nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Song, Best Country Album and Best Long Form Music Video. John Mayer is nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Usher is nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with R. Kelly), and BeBe Winans is nominated Best Traditional Gospel Album.

THE 50TH ANNUAL GRAMMY Awards are produced by John Cossette Productions in association with AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are executive producers, Walter C. Miller is producer/director, Tisha Fein is the coordinating producer, David Wild and Ken Ehrlich are the writers and Tzvi Small is supervising producer. Rickey Minor is the musical director.